The Top 50 Music Videos of the 2000s

Arcade Fire made a well-crafted video for "Black Mirror", an interactive clip on par with high-concept vids by Radiohead and Björk that moved and changed depending on the viewer. Despite all that awesomeness, we're still partial to this simple but simply captivating marriage of music and images, with Arcade Fire soundtracking a mini-version of Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West". Spoiler alert: If you've not seen the film, this pretty well gives away its ending.

Like their music, Sigur Rós' videos can threaten to tip over from the heart-filling to the manipulative; their clip for "Svefn-G-Englar", featuring a special needs theater group tips over the wrong side. This video, featuring a sort of post-apocalyptic playground, does not.